Old stumps on historic streets
From the hill under Blandford Church to the yards along the Appomattox, we grind old and rotted stumps to chips below the grass, one stump or a yard full, and price the whole job before the grinder starts.
Call (804) 429-8770 Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 6 pm. Estimates are free, and an after-hours message is returned the next working morning.
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Grey, soft and sprouting
A stump that has sat for years, gone grey, soft at the edges and sprouting at the base, grinds out the same way a fresh one does: the cutting wheel takes it to chips below grade and the spot goes back to lawn.
Age changes the work more than the result. Rotted outer wood shaves away fast, while the heartwood at the root collar often stays hard, and that collar is the growth point that has to go before the shoots stop. Old stumps also tend to sit tight against a brick walk, a step or a fence put in around the tree, so we look at what stands beside one before we quote it.
Brick, iron and old shade
Blandford Church stands at the highest point in the city, atop Well's Hill, the oldest building here whose history is well documented, and the streets below it hold the old trees, brick walks and iron fences that make a stump job more about care than horsepower.
Poplar Lawn, Folly Castle, Centre Hill, Courthouse Historic District, Pocahontas Island
Each but the last is a national historic district, and the last is a peninsula on the Appomattox River. Across the city there are 18,026 housing units, and on the protected blocks a grinder works close to things nobody can replace, so we keep the wheel off old brick and stone, shield what the chips could hit and leave the ground level.
More than the grind
Some yards need the stump out completely, the roots flattened or a whole row cleared, and each of those starts with the same free estimate.
Half the homes in the city were built by 1969, and many of the trees planted with them are coming down now.
Where a patio, an addition or a new tree is going in, stump removal takes the stump out completely, root ball and all where it has to go, and fills the hole so seed or sod can take.
stump excavationSurface roots that lift the grass and catch the mower are ground down with the same machine, so the yard mows flat. The deep roots stay in the soil and rot away on their own.
Several stumps ground in one visit cost less each than the same stumps on separate days, because the drive and the setup are paid for once.
Google reviews
We had trees removed by Elias who than used Garcia to remove stumps. Great work. Curtious, polite and got it done in no time. Thank you.
Garcia stump grinding is awesome! He took care of a lot of stumps we had in an efficient way. Our yard looks so much better! Highly recommend.
The Garcia Stump Grinding team gets it done every time rain or shine. We still have more work to do and we will call them again being that we only work with these guys. Highly recommend. Easy to get along with and they work extremely quick and clean. Really, these guys will steam roll a tree/ stump job.
Down the road
The work runs across the whole service area, from Richmond down to here, and the neighboring towns on the same road have pages of their own.
Colonial Heights, Ettrick, Matoaca, Hopewell and Fort Lee sit close by on the same trips. If your address looks past the line, ask on the call and we'll tell you straight.
Chester
Chester grinders on the drive back toward the city, with the same estimate and cleanup.
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Short Pump grinders out on the west side, quoted the same way, whole job first.
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Tuckahoe, Mechanicsville and the rest of our routes, listed in one place.
service areaTell us what's in the yard and what stands near it; the estimate is free and carries no obligation. We pick up Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 6 pm.
We show up when we say we will, and we clean up when the work is done.
